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The Big Train

ITT we post and discuss articles about science, how stuff works, and why it works. Haters are highly discouraged but not everyone has an open mind so feel free. This is not a science picture thread, we already have one for that. Another helpful thing to avoid luking is to post the article title outside the link.

did you guys watch the new Cosmos? I have it DVRd but haven't watched it. is it good or did Fox do Fox stuff to it? Like on a scale of original Cosmos to the Fox football robot and that dumbass who does impressions during football games how much Fox is it?

did you guys watch the new Cosmos? I have it DVRd but haven't watched it. is it good or did Fox do Fox stuff to it? Like on a scale of original Cosmos to the Fox football robot and that dumbass who does impressions during football games how much Fox is it?

did you guys watch the new Cosmos? I have it DVRd but haven't watched it. is it good or did Fox do Fox stuff to it? Like on a scale of original Cosmos to the Fox football robot and that dumbass who does impressions during football games how much Fox is it?

I am a bigtime geek when it comes to Through the Wormhole, The Universe, How The Earth Was Made, etc... I watched about 20 minutes of this show and I completely lost interest. Nothing of substance. I'll try it again next week but if it doesn't bring more to the table I'm out.

"That's what you get when you let some dude from Los Angles/Texas with the alias Mookfu raw dog it. Willesgirl can back me up here. There's a lesson in this. You only get HIV once; make it count." - Mr. Bread

did you guys watch the new Cosmos? I have it DVRd but haven't watched it. is it good or did Fox do Fox stuff to it? Like on a scale of original Cosmos to the Fox football robot and that dumbass who does impressions during football games how much Fox is it?

I am a bigtime geek when it comes to Through the Wormhole, The Universe, How The Earth Was Made, etc... I watched about 20 minutes of this show and I completely lost interest. Nothing of substance. I'll try it again next week but if it doesn't bring more to the table I'm out.

I was disappointed too... Carl Sagan's The Cosmos was probably the most captivating science program I've ever seen in my whole life (And I've seen every BBC documentary series I can get my hands on) but NdGT just doesn't do a very good job selling it... he made the age of the universe seem uninteresting... i'm having trouble recalling what all was even talked about, other than it wasn't very engaging. I'm in the one more week boat.

The ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter, named pi, is a mathematical constant of crucial importance to science, yet most scientists rely on pre-computed approximations of pi for their research. This is problematic, because scientific progress relies on information that will very likely disappear in case of a cataclysmic event, such as a zombie apocalypse. In such case, scientific progress might even stop entirely. This motivates the need for a robust, yet easily applicable method to estimate pi.

The ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter, named pi, is a mathematical constant of crucial importance to science, yet most scientists rely on pre-computed approximations of pi for their research. This is problematic, because scientific progress relies on information that will very likely disappear in case of a cataclysmic event, such as a zombie apocalypse. In such case, scientific progress might even stop entirely. This motivates the need for a robust, yet easily applicable method to estimate pi.